Department of State (RG 59, 65 cubic feet). Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Office of Southeast Asian Affairs, Vietnam Files, 1959-60. Minutes of Meetings of the Sino-American Joint Sessions American Embassy Taipei, USOM Taiwan, ROC Industrial Development and Investment Center, 1960-63. Bureau of Inter-American Affairs. Office of the Permanent Mission to the Organization of American States, Records of the Foreign Ministers of the American States, 1951-59. Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Subject Files, 1942-62; Records of the World Health Organization and the Committee on International Health Policy, 1946-62. Executive Secretariat, Presidential Correspondence, 1953-60. Office of the Under Secretary for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs Records of Interdepartmental Committee of Under Secretaries on Foreign Economic Policy (ICFEP), 1961-63. Departmental Regulations and Related Files, 1946-56. Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, Records Relating to the Crisis in the Dominican Republic, 1965-66. Other recent declassifications were in conjunction with archival processing and are listed under "Accessions and Openings." Materials open. Contact Archives II Civilian Records (301) 837-3480.

Agency for International Development (RG 286, 185 cubic feet). Office of Central and West African Affairs, Project Case Files Relating to Regional Water Resources and Land Use, 1966-80. Bureau for Near East and South Asia, Turkey Desk, Records Relating to Control of Narcotics in Turkey, 1970-74. Bureau for Policy & Program Coordination, Women in Development Project Files, 1975-77. Bureau of Humanitarian Response, Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance Project Files, 1985-87; Records Relating to Disaster Assistance in Cooperating Countries, 1974-86. National Bi-Partisan Committee on Central America Kissinger Commission, Recommendation Files, 1985-87; Subject Files, 1984-87; Printout Files of the Automated Database System, 1984-87, Subject Files, 1984-85. Office of Intergovernmental and International Affairs, Development Finance Coordination Division, Documents, Press Releases, and Letters of the Development Assistance Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 1969-72; Reports of the Development Assistance Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 1971-74; Documents of the Information Office of the Development Center (DC) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 1968-74; U.S. Position Papers for the U.S. Delegation to the Third United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD III); Documents of the TECHNICAL Cooperation Committee (TCD) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 1968-74.

During the last quarter, the Library submitted 136 new mandatory review cases, totaling 1,371 pages, for declassification review. In addition, 2,460 pages, which had been requested by researcher for mandatory declassification review, were declassified on-site using agency guidelines. Washington agencies returned 2,103 pages of reviewed material during this quarter. Of these, 1,036 pages were declassified; 637 pages were released with excisions; and 430 pages were exempted from declassification. Seventy-eight cases were closed. During this quarter, 26,915
pages were declassified under guidelines provided by Washington agencies.

Processing continued on the material which had been returned to the Library during the quarter from the Remote Archives Capture (RAC) Project, an interagency program in which documents from the National Security File, Country File, Vietnam, were scanned and transmitted in digital form for declassification review. This quarter, 6,436 pages were declassified in full; 51 pages released with excisions; and 476 pages exempted.

The John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board reviewed 1680 pages for declassification. Of these pages, 108 were declassified in full, 1492 were declassified in part, and 80 were exempt. As a result of a Freedom of Information Act request, 1414 pages of U. S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division, microfilm have been reviewed and released.

The Library received 57 new mandatory review requests. Sixteen cases were processed with 1884 pages submitted to agencies for review. Agencies returned 1405 pages and duplicate pages following review. Of these, 495 pages were declassified, 394 pages were declassified in part, and 19 pages were exempted from declassification. In addition, 1200 pages were declassified by Library staff in response to mandatory review requests.

During the third quarter of FY 1998, the Gerald R. Ford Library submitted 129 documents (1035 pages) for mandatory declassification review on behalf of 7 requestors. During that time the agencies acted
on 55 documents (292 pages) with 45 documents (237 pages) being declassified in full and 10 documents (55 pages) being declassified in part. The topics covered include foreign aid and the intelligence investigations.